Licensing Symantec Endpoint Protection

Symantec Endpoint Protection requires a paid license after the trial period expires or when your current license expires. You can apply an existing license to a product upgrade. You use the License Activation Wizard to activate new or renewed licenses, or when you convert a trial license to a paid license. You license Symantec Endpoint Protection according to the number of Symantec Endpoint Protection clients that you need to protect the endpoints at your site.

Once the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager is installed, you have 60 days to purchase enough license seats to cover all of your deployed clients.

It is important to understand the license requirements imposed by the system you want to protect. A license lets you install the Symantec Endpoint Protection client on a specified number of computers and download virus definitions and product updates from LiveUpdate.

Depending upon the license vendor, you receive either a product license serial number or a Symantec License file. License files are either sent to you in email or downloaded from a secure Web site. The license file uses the file extension .SLF (Symantec license file ). When the license file is sent by email, it is attached to the email as a .ZIP file. You must extract the .SLF file from the .ZIP file.

Save the license file to a computer that can be accessed from the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager console. Many users save the license on the computer that hosts the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager and also save a copy of the license to a different computer or removable storage media for safekeeping.

Warning:

To prevent corruption of the license file, do not open or alter the file contents in any way. You may however, copy and store the license as desired.

Note:

In some cases, you may only have a license serial number. This serial number can be used to activate your Symantec product license and to download the product software.